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SS: (Schutzstaffel) Protection squad: Hitler's bodyguard, Nazi party police, and later, the most "racially pure" elite guard of the Third Reich. It was the main tool of terror, "Germanization," and destruction. SS Officers were also responsible for the structure and organization of extermination camps and the mass killings which took place there

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